Honors

Courses

To be eligible for honors courses, a
student must have Deans List status or, in the case of first-year
students, have a minimum high school average of 90 and a minimum SAT
score of 1200. In
general, honors courses are more rigorous and/or advanced than regular
courses and have the following characteristics:

Involve a critical investigation of primary sources

Make use of and/or demonstrate current methods of field inquiry

Entail a heavy writing component (not merely summary thinking)

Stress analysis and original thinking

Require students to revise and re-write essays and/or other major assignments